Phone Formatting (part 2)

As stated in my previous post, I was about to do a total phone formatting. But something happened unexpectedly that made me go through it even quicker than expected. A day after I did my post, I had a trouble with my messaging and calendar apps. I was always getting this pop-up error message when tryin to open anythg within these apps: "memory full, close some applications and try again". As I have handy taskman installed, I checked that NO other app was open. I even rebooted the phone a couple of times without any success. My friend then told me her 6630 had the same issue a year or so ago and only a format solved the problem, and here it is: a new reason to add to that list of why I wanted to format my 3250.

So I went to the shop where I bought my phone from and they did the *#7370# as Wardy had suggested in a comment following my phone formatting part 1 post. Luckily I had sync'd my phone with my laptop just the day before. I don't know what would've happened if I didn't... I have hundreds of phone numbers that SHOULD not be lost and I never sync'd my phone with my pc, just because I never use Outlook. Kind of stupid, right? Anyway, I sort of avoided a huge problem here. Adding to that, I performed a memory card formatting, after backing up all the info, of course. After format, I restored all my apps, videos, pictures, sound files, documents, themes. But I didn't restore all my games.

Now here are the changes I noted. Remember, I had in mind to compare phone booting time, camera opening time, RAM, internal memory,... But since that unexpected error occured, I had no time to grab all the info I needed to do the comparison before having the phone formatted, or hard reset. So there it goes:

- the phone is still rebooting sometimes when I open the gallery, probably because I didn't perform a full format.

- the phone start-up seems (and I say seems since I have no comparison times) much quicker. Menu opening and folder opening also are a bit quicker.

- SMS sending speed is back to being as fast as new, even without the SMS_acceleration from Nokia

- Contact's details viewing is much quicker. It used to take around 3-4 seconds to open up a contact's details, now it's basically instantaneous

- the coolest thing I observed: I have now 6.7MB of free internal memory, even after restoring all the applications, all the themes (but not all the games). Even so, I went from 2.7MB to 6.7MB. Now I know I lost all my messages, but those were around 2MB (since I copied them to my pc). So that is 2MB gained, ain't that amazing???

- The keylocking problem still exists: I use Smartphoneware's Best keylocker and I had a problem: even though I had set my delay time to 1min, after 10-20seconds of inactivity, if I press any button the keypad will be locked... But I am pressing a button! How does that give it the right to lock my keypad, I don't know?! Anyway, the problem is still here :s

- I have 2 or so more MB of free RAM (yaaaay)

- my SMS and calendar problem got solved, of course

- I gained back the "Music" folder which was installed on the phone when I first got it, but which I had deleted. Then I ditched it again because its icon doesn't change with the themes :s

- Syncing with my pc after formatting, I didn't lose any of my contacts, calendar or notes entries (which is a very nice surprise btw). But I lost all my contact's groups, I lost all my default number setting for my contacts, and only old sms were re-transfered, 3 times each (WTF?)

Anyway, beside the little problems that are still there (keylocking and rebooting and syncing issues) I am very glad I went through with that format: the more free RAM and internal memory are very nice, the faster SMS and contact's opening are just too good.